Christmas tree and candy cane shaped pizzas

Brandy is the author of the food blog, Nutmeg Nanny. In her spare time she enjoys developing recipes, baking and cooking. She is a small town girl who left the corn fields of Ohio for the scenic beauty of the Hudson Valley region of New ...

Play with your food!

It's time to get savory with your Christmas baked goods! Take store-bought pizza crust, cut it into an adorable holiday shape and get topping! Candy canes and Christmas trees never tasted so delicious!

Who doesn't love a holiday-themed pizza party? These fun Christmas-shaped pizzas are going to be a huge hit in your house! We shaped our pizzas like Christmas trees and candy canes but just think of the other fun holiday shapes you could make — snowmen, Christmas tree bulbs and even gingerbread men! Don't worry if you are not a master of shaping pizza dough, we used store-bought pizza crusts to make things even better!

Christmas shaped pizza recipe

Yields 2 pizzas

Ingredients:

2 (12 inch) precooked pizza crusts

Marinara sauce

Mozzarella cheese

Red and yellow bell pepper

Fresh spinach

Pepperoni

Directions:

Preheat oven to 425 degrees F.

Using one pizza crust cut out a Christmas tree. Use the other pizza crust to cut out a candy cane. You can do this either freehand or by drawing the design on a piece of parchment paper and then using that as a guide while cutting.

Add cut out pizzas to a cookie sheet and add a little marinara sauce to each cut out pizza. Sprinkle about 1/4 cup cheese onto each pizza and start decorating.

For the Christmas tree pizza add on a little fresh spinach and then top with little round pieces of red pepper and cut out a yellow pepper star for the top.

For the candy cane pizza make stripes using pepperoni rounds. Leaving about 2 inches between "stripes."

Bake for about 10-12 minutes until cheese is melted and bottom is crispy.